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Date:      08 Jul 1999 09:47:32 +0300
From:      Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bursting at the seams (was: Heh heh, humorous lockup)
Message-ID:  <86oghnr62j.fsf@not.demophon.com>
In-Reply-To: julian@whistle.com's message of "8 Jul 1999 05:07:12 %2B0300"
References:  <199907080137.SAA95818@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.990707190223.23943e-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) writes:

> we already use the gs register for SMP now..
> what about the fs register?
> I vaguely remember that the different segments could be used to achieve
> this.... (%fs points to user space or something)

You can't extend the address space that way, segments are all parts of
the single 4GB address space described by the page mapping.


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